Tweet30-10-2009 om 18:04 by Maastricht Region Branding Foundation

Charles Landry, who helps cities transform their thinking so they can look at their potential imaginatively and can play and act with originality, assesses the interplay and the impact of deeper global trends and attempts to ground these in practical initiatives. He inspires, stimulates, challenges and facilitates transformation. He was in Maastricht recently to give a lecture on creativity in city development and the related aspects of Maastricht’s project to become the European City of Culture in 2018. Olaf Müller, head of the culture department of the City of Aachen, invited Landry to Aachen.

Landry’s parents had emigrated from Germany to England before the Second World War. Mr Müller showed him the SuperC building with its geothermal heating solution, at the RWTH University in the city center. They looked at Aachen’s cultural heritage and the new presentation in the City Hall as part of the Charlemagne Route. They also took a look at the Ludwig Museum and the various forms of art that it deals with; and, in conversation with Aachen’s former mayor, Jürgen Linden, Landry raised the importance of multilingualism and the shared history and innovative potential of the region. It’s beginning to look as if Mr Landry will have a role to play in Maastricht’s bid for cultural preeminence, particularly now that former mayor Linden will be playing an active role in this. It does sound as if he’s got the experience and creativity that is precisely what is required.

Source; Meuse-Rhine Journal

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